I bought a replacement radio for my stock dash to complete the look and I found this. It's the proper model 986202 push button AM radio but as you can see the preset buttons have white letters stamped on them that say "DELCO". I just wanted to see if anyone knew about this or if anyone has seen them before on these radios. I know Buick stamped BUICK on some of theirs but I've never seen the Delco one before and I wanted to know what it's all about.
I´m probably not helping much. But Google Image search only revelaed one more of that kind to me, which is currently on sale on ebay. The Model number database does not mention anything special about your model number either.
Maybe it´s possible that apart from the Chevrolet Dealers, Delco sold those Radios separately and used those lettered push buttons instead of the blank ones?
Are you saying that there were radios with "CHEVY" buttons? If so, I'd want one if each and make a radio with "ELKY_" on it.
Or use the Delco, and make "ELCO_"
This ebay link is to a 986202 02PLE radio just like the one in the original post, but the one pictured shows only remnants of white, but the DELCO letters are still on the buttons. Click on the link and look at the close-up on the buttons. Who's to say that mass production radios couldn't have had a slightly different appearance from day to day depending on what Delco had in parts bins on that particular day. It may have been that the pushbuttons came in pre packaged matching sets, and from several different suppliers, just like other parts did.
It was probably taken at 90°? Cameras and Smartphones very often save that information within the picture (EXIF data) and the Software which shows the picture reads it again to show it correctly on your screen. Probably that information got lost. This could explain why the original picture is shown correctly on your PC / Smartphone / whatever and not here anymore ;-)
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